Dead Drunk
(2023)Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks
(Book 41 in the British Library Tales of the Weird series)
An anthology of stories edited by Pam Lock
The vaults of Victorian fiction are rife with stories of drink and drunkenness, envisaging intoxication as a catalyst for the tragic and macabre, the riotous and sensational and, of course, as a gateway to the realm of spirits and the supernatural.
Offering a dizzying cocktail of tales brimming with the weird, the grotesque and the outlandish, this new anthology plumbs an enticing niche of drink-fuelled Victorian storytelling to serve up haunting classics from Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Amelia B. Edwards and Rudyard Kipling alongside many more delirious oddities from the British Library collection.
Genre: Horror
Offering a dizzying cocktail of tales brimming with the weird, the grotesque and the outlandish, this new anthology plumbs an enticing niche of drink-fuelled Victorian storytelling to serve up haunting classics from Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Amelia B. Edwards and Rudyard Kipling alongside many more delirious oddities from the British Library collection.
Genre: Horror
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